What is being saved?

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A salvation message aimed at catholic teens.

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Introduction

Ask for help from Ola and Marchin
“ I am going to tell you two stories this evening. both I made. 1 is True and 1 is not.”
Catholic salvation:
1:
Its a breezy sunny day. You are on a cruise ship that is inconveniently sinking a few miles out at sea. Jesus flies in a lifeboat he drops in the water a few hundred yards from the ship. You swim to the lifeboat, and find instructions that to keep it afloat you need to use a hand pump to periodically inflate the lifeboat lest it sink. Also included are a pair of oars so you can propel yourself to shore. Ola is an Olympic swimmer and decides to swim to shore herself. Marcin is an expert sailor makes his own raft and paddles to shore with his hands.
2:
It is dark with a horrible storm raging around you. You are an enemy soldier laying unconscious on the deck of your burning ship. You ship has just lost a navy battle against Jesus’ battleship. Jesus climbs aboard your ship, does CPR to revive you. The waves crash against the side ship, and you hear loud cracks as your ship starts to fall apart. You smell smoke from the burning fuel and your head still hurts. Jesus tells you that if you come with him he will make you his ally inserted of his enemy, and even his personal friend. It seems to good to be true, but you accept Jesus at his word. He carries you over to the His ship, and are told you are now an ally of Jesus and are safe from the storm. Ola doesn’t trust Jesus, she thinks Jesus is trying to trick her, so she tries to swim to safety herself, but is quickly buried under the big waves. Marcin thinks Jesus is sincere, but doesn’t think his promise is enough to be let onto the enemy ship, it’s too easy. He thanks Jesus for the CPR, builds a raft quickly from some rubbish, and tries to sail to Jesus’ boat himself. He is quickly buried under the waves.
3 main differences between these two stories.
What is your condition?
What is necessary to get safely to shore?
What happens without Jesus?

What is being saved?

Why we need to be saved:
Romans 3:23 CSB
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Sin: anything we think say or do that is against God’s Character.
1 Corinthians 15:3–4 CSB
For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
So Jesus saved us from our sins, what was the consequence that we were saved from?
Romans 6:23 CSB
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So Jesus saved us from death, but was that like saving us from a cruise ship a battleship?

What is your condition?

Are we mostly good people who Jesus is kind of obligated to save, or are we God’s enemies who deserve the exact opposite?
Romans 5:10 CSB
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.
Romans 5:6–8 CSB
For while we were still helpless, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 CSB
But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
We are not good people, we are sinners who deserve death. Not only that we were are as good as dead:
Colossians 2:13 CSB
And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses.
Ephesians 2:4–5 CSB
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us, made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!
Without jesus we are like a unconscious soldier on a burning ship. Dead, dead dead. and there is absolutely nothing we can do.
2. What is necessary to get safely to shore?
Does Jesus give us what we need to get to shore ourselves, or does he do all the work? must we do any work in order to be saved?
Romans 10:9 CSB
If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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Romans 10:11 CSB
For the Scripture says, Everyone who believes on him will not be put to shame,
Romans 10:13 CSB
For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
John 3:18 CSB
Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
John 11:25 CSB
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.
Acts 16:30–31 CSB
He escorted them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
Do we save ourselves, or do we just trust Jesus? All we have to do is believe that He is serious, trust him to save us, and that is it.
But Ben, that does sound too good to be true, it’s too easy! Lets talk about Ola and Marcin. Ola represents someone who is very good at following rules, Marcing is a very smart person. Does their effort help them safely get to shore?
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